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1 hour ago, Purdey said:

 

Personally, I believe the country needs to push industry and technology so that tourism becomes a smaller fraction of the economy. For that to happen, education needs to improve.

Tourism in Thailand accounts for only around 10-11% of GDP, but employs a lot of people.

6 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Wait till the Chinese come back. ????

Shrimp buffet mayhem

Just another affirmation of the "quality destination" that tourists should be paying more for. ????

14 hours ago, Eleftheros said:

UK excess deaths at the moment are consistently up about 10% over the long-term average, of which very few are Covid-related. Deaths at home are up by 30%, described by one Prof. Levinson as "horrific numbers".

 

An investigation is expected to focus on a narrow set of possible reasons:

• pandemic response (lockdowns, masks etc, leading to downturns in physical and mental health)
• lack of access to healthcare and delayed referrals
• cost of living crisis, deprivation, stress
• heart problems caused by the Covid virus

The last of those seems improbable, given that the Israeli Ministry of Health has completed a study of 500,000 people and found no link between Covid infection and heart ailments such as pericarditis or myocarditis.

 

So there must be some other reason why people - mostly of working age - are falling off the twig with such regularity.

Yep. Was "SADS" (sudden adult death syndrome) ever a thing before?

11 hours ago, alyx said:

The act of a lunatic 

Another great man biting the dust for no reason

Japan has some of the toughest gun laws in the world. Very difficult for anyone unconnected to obtain a gun there, legally or not.

I doubt this guy is some random lunatic.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Hoteliers are not idiots, they don't stay in business if they are. Unlike TAT staff, who are on the government teat.

The hoteliers can see this moronic proposal will damage Thailand as a tourist destination, and do them no favors with foreigners residing here long-term either.

Exactly. Utterly stupid thinking, and proving just how out of touch these people are with the situation (and reality in general).

4 hours ago, KhunLA said:

A few of y'all need to unplug from MSM.

 

Thailand & China together ... how would that ever be a bad thing.

... Make enemies with the worlds #1 manufacturing country ????

... Top tech and producer of alternative energy components for home

and vehicles.  Compare prices here for solar & EVs to your home country.

... Top supplier of raw materials so Taiwan can make all those components, chips that keep the world functioning.

 

Without China the cost of everything would be way beyond what you are all crying about now.

True enough. Think of how much your trainers would cost without Uighur (slave) labor?

Good luck. Most Thai vets won't do this. I live in Banchang, Rayong, and there was only one vet I found that was willing to help when my old dog was in terrible pain. He supplied the syringe and "pentobarbital" (?) solution, and I made the injection. I think this business / shop has since moved premises now, though.

I would inform the vet that you are willing to inject your pet first, I think a few of them have the materials, but won't perform the job.

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This happened 15 years ago. 

Must be a fair old 'back-log' of serious crimes ongoing..?

Couldn't possibly be politically-motivated, then..

Passive-aggressive contradictions. ????

3 minutes ago, actonion said:

If only these Doctors worried more about the local hygiene  in Thailand  we'd  all  be  a lot more healthier  maybe 

Hygiene, road safety, food safety, clean air, healthy eating, etc., etc.  No bandwagon or gravy-train for healthy, confident people, unfortunately.

14 minutes ago, Caldera said:

Since the mask mandate has ended, I've hardly ever seen any Thais unmasked in public anyway (in Bangkok, might be different elsewhere).

 

Foreign tourists are a different story, but they didn't seem to care even before. 

 

So, what difference would this really make?

The mask mandate ended only to try attract foreign tourists back here. It's only the main tourist areas that you also see Thais without masks, tbh.

Thais are still getting their info and news from masked newsreaders, masked cartoon characters on Line app, Mor Phrom, etc.

In the workplace, a lot of factory workers, contractors, etc still have to ATK-check every 3 days. If they come up positive, they will have to isolate (and lose money) for 10 days, pending negative results. So it's also the fear of losing earnings..

Mandated or not, the mask-wearing will be here in Thailand for a long time.

Lovely bloke. Killed his wife in a similar modus operandi, thirty years ago.

https://www.thephuketnews.com/police-suspect-banyin-in-wife-1991-death-58152.php

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But it was concerns that marijuana is being laced with illegal drugs

Like what.? ????

4 hours ago, Gulfsailor said:

 is a lung specialist and has 31 scientific publications to its name. Can you please share your experience in and contributions to medical science?

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manoon-Leechawengwongs

At the start of this year, he was urging the populace "not to be scared", and being positive about an endemic status of this virus.

Now, he is looking to postpone this, and scare-mongering..

A large section of society is trying to rebuild their lives and livelihoods right now. Are you happy to have this guy dictate the parameters of your life for you?

1 hour ago, prakhonchai nick said:

To date she has not been named. She is probably the wife of a VIP, so all cases automatically dropped.

All she has to do is slur the magical words; "Do you know who I am?" And get spirited away from the stench of her actions.

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According to the prime minister, the Thai government has been working with foreign governments in an effort to promote industrial development and strengthen the nation’s industrial base.

He also defended the government’s borrowing, arguing that the loans were essential to stimulate spending and drive economic growth in the kingdom.

Translated: "Signed up to shonky trade deals, in return for loans to buy jets and weapons".